Pie, Cake, Pastry and Puddings
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Testimonies for the Church 3:21
Above all things, we should not with our pens advocate positions
that we do not put to a practical test in our own families, upon our
own tables. This is dissimulation, a species of hypocrisy. In Michigan
we can get along better without salt, sugar, and milk, than can many
who are situated in the far West, or far East, where there is a scarcity
of fruit. But there are very few families in Battle Creek who do not
use these articles upon their tables. We know that a free use of these
things is positively injurious to health, and, in many cases, we think
that if they were not used at all, a much better state of health would be
enjoyed. But at present our burden is not upon these things. The people
are so far behind that we see it is all they can bear to have us draw
the line upon their injurious indulgences and stimulating narcotics.
We bear positive testimony against tobacco, spirituous liquors, snuff,
tea, coffee, flesh-meats, butter, spices, rich cakes, mince pies, a large
amount of salt, and all exciting substances used as articles of food.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 46-47
Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her family. Flesh-
meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are
freely partaken of by both old and young. These things do their work
in deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves, and enfeebling the
intellect. The blood-making organs can not convert such things into
good blood.
God has furnished man with abundant means for the gratification
of an unperverted appetite. He has spread before him the products of
the earth,—a bountiful variety of food that is palatable to the taste and
nutritious to the system. Of these our benevolent heavenly Father says
we may freely eat. Fruits, grains, and vegetables, prepared in a simple
way, free from spice and grease of all kinds, make, with milk or cream,
the most healthful diet. They impart nourishment to the body, and give
a power of endurance and a vigor of intellect that are not produced by
a stimulating diet.
Testimonies for the Church 3:136
Children are allowed to eat flesh-meats, spices, butter, cheese,
pork, rich pastry, and condiments generally. They are also allowed to